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IN AFRICA 
men and are not at all likely to be hostile or trouble¬ 
some. Our safari at one time went into a district 
where we were warned to expect trouble, but there 
was none and I think there never need be any if the 
white men are considerate and fair. If a district is 
known to be particularly troublesome, the govern¬ 
ment authorities would not permit a hunting party 
to go into it, so for that reason the hunters need ap¬ 
prehend no dangers from that source. 
Game 
Game is found in varying degrees of abundance 
in most parts of the East African highlands. With¬ 
in two hours of Nairobi the sportsman may find 
twelve or fifteen species, while within the space of 
four weeks a lucky hunter might secure elephant, 
lion, rhinoceros, buffalo, eland and hippopotamus. 
It is hardly likely that he would, but it is quite with¬ 
in the range of possibilities. It all depends upon 
luck. The hunter is allowed under his two hundred 
and fifty dollar license, about one hundred and 
ninety-five animals, comprising thirty-five species, 
and not including lion, leopard, wart-hog and 
hyena. There is no restriction on the number of 
these last-named species that one is allowed to shoot, 
but there is on the number that he gets the oppor¬ 
tunity of shooting. 
The success of an expedition should not be meas¬ 
ured by the number of trophies, but rather by the 
quality of them. For example, the new license al¬ 
lows twenty zebras, but no one would want to kill 
